Rural Planning theory construction of depopulated areas based on the redefinition of related population: through the practice of community development

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K14909
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 23030:Architectural planning and city planning-related
• Research Institution: Kindai University (2022-2023); Tokyo Metropolitan University (2020-2021)
• Principal Investigator: NODA MITSURU 近畿大学, 総合社会学部, 講師 (70793909)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 関係人口 / 地域づくり / 社会関係資本 / 過疎地域 / 農村計画

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study attempts to redefine the concept of “related population,” which has been considered important from a policy perspective but has not been clearly defined, and to apply it to planning theory.
Based on a survey and analysis of community development practices, we summarized the main points of “related population as a community-building population,” “reversibility and diachronic positioning of relationships,” “range of relationships possessed by each person,” “recognition and correction of imbalanced social space,” and “related population as a competition for time,” and then modeled local changes in social space caused by the related population and corresponding cases. The following issues are modeled as examples of changes and responses to the following issues.
The following issues were identified: 1) medium- and long-term scenario design aimed at orienting local development projects, and 2) systematization with planned margins and contingencies.

Free Research Field

農村計画

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義は、バズワード化しつつある関係人口についてその実態を踏まえた概念整理を行ったこと、及び今後の計画論構築に向けた論点を地域づくりの実践とフィードバックを通して指し示したことにある。併せて地域内外の協働の姿を長期的・広域的視座で捉えることを前提に、ともすれば現況において傾倒されつつある「関係の量的拡大思考」に終始するスタンスではなく、その先にある地域の本質的課題へのアクセスを見据えた制度設計の重要性を示すことができた。